Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1887-05-05
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sooiety Evils.


There are many foolish and
practices in the society OF to-f
which many people look upon
harmless, but which are the
cause of some of our worst ev
For instance, many young ladies
in the habit of promenadlng q
street in search of young men
walk back home with them. Th
walk the main streets while the bo
are going to their rooms or returnii
from their suppers. And after The
have succeeded in getting the boz
to "catch en'' they promenad
homeward, chatting their little non
sense This is but a beginning, "a
sometimes the boys hardly get bacl
on the streets before they meet then
again. Then they go trotting bacl
home once more, and with man,
little nonsensicle mods and twists they
once more reach their homes. Tho
difference between this and the old
play, chickens in the dough-tray,
run glrls, rum" is that this should
read, "boys on the street. run girls,
rum If nothing else it always
looks bad to sec people too anxiuos.
This is by no means the worst practice
that the young people of our towns
have. 1t is customary in all OF the
towns to give parties and suppers,
and while these parties are being
carried on you can see young ladies
walking the streets with young gen.
tlemen at the very dark hour of mid
night. Parents where are yet. AT
home, dreaming Of things folks at the
meeting said while your daughters
are walking the streets at night?
While your girls are being led over
the streets by little slim-leggec,
empty-headed fools with tall silk
hats and little canes in their hands.
Yes, while they armed about by
little numskuIIs whose common
sense, reason and judgment all put
together would shake in mustard
seed shell. And then sigh and say,
"society Is coming to an awful
pass, don't understand it, Look
into your homes. Study your chill
dren and the course Of training
which you are giving them, and you
| Will find the cause of society evils.
There is another evil which I must
mention. It is nothing less than
this fact; that great many young
ladies' who CLAIM to be good, pure
women and even girls who belong
to the church and claim to be Chris
tians, sit in their parlors and enter
tain men who drink, and even while
they have the very stencil of liquor
on their breath. Young men who
do not consider themselves capable
of entertaining a girl without having
drink or two of liquor ahead. Such
girls are IN this way encouraging
| drunkenness, and when drunkenness
is encouraged all kinds of meanness
Is encouraged. AT the same time,
if YOU should tell one of these girls
that they are encouraging evil they
would feign surprise and cxclaim,
in that foolish way common to such
girls, ''the very idea that do such
thing" 1t is surprising TO see
what great number Of such girls
there are in our towns. DO not un-
derstand me TO excuse the boys, for
Go not say that The girls are the
cause of all snch evils, by any
means. But say thay they en-
courage many Of these things from
which the greatest evil results. It
takes men and women both to make
society, but at the same time. the
women of our country give society its
tone. New who is responsible, in
the greatest degree, for the way in
which our young ladies att2 Who
is responsible for the kind of compa-
ny they keep? | fear no successful
contradiction when l say their moth
ers are. Some one has said, tell
me what kind Of q mother a girl has
and 1 viii tell you what kind OF .
girl she is. These are only a few
of the many foolish and evil practices
ofsoclety DOC, IN Eayette Adpey-
tiscr.